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Article 15
 

Terms for Conducting Elections

 

1. Regular elections shall take place on the last Sunday of March of the fourth year of authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

 

2. The Central Election Commission shall announce the commencement of the regular electoral process of deputies ninety days in advance of the election day.

 

3. Extraordinary elections shall be conducted within sixty days from the day of the publication of the decision of the President of Ukraine on pre-term termination of the authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

 

4. Repeat elections of deputies shall take place in a single-mandate constituency on the last Sunday of the sixty-day period from the day of the publication of the Central Election Commission’s decision to conduct repeat elections. The Central Election Commission shall pass a decision to call repeat elections within thirty days from the day of invalidating elections in said constituency or recognizing them as failing to take place, or in the event of an elected candidate’s waiver of the deputy’s mandate.

 

5. Midterm elections of deputies in a single-mandate constituency shall take place on the last Sunday of the sixty-day period from the day of the publication of the decision to conduct said elections. The Central Election Commission shall pass a decision to conduct midterm elections of deputies within thirty days from the day of pre-term termination of the authority of the candidate elected in said constituency.

 

6. The Central Election Commission shall announce the commencement of repeat and midterm electoral processes in a single-mandate constituency the day after the publication of the decision to conduct said elections.

 

7. Repeat and midterm elections of deputies shall not be conducted in a single-mandate constituency in the last year preceding regular elections.